Saturday, August 29, 2009

Because of our severe active lifestyles we only had time to cover three episodes this week. On the positive side, these were three episodes that were closely related to each other in some way. Also, J.R. really hates Lore. Even more than Picard's brother it sounds like.

Thus begins a very sigh-inducing Season Four!

A weird note, in our post-podcast research. The actress who plays Marie Picard is only four years younger than the actor who plays Robert Picard. I thought it was a 20 year difference. Whoops!

Friday, August 14, 2009

As you know, we're planning on watching "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" whilst participating in the Star Trek Drinking game. We don't recommend actually playing the game with alcohol. We're very temperate ourselves, plus if you actually read the rules, you won't be able to get through an entire TNG episode without succumbing to alcohol poisoning within the first 10 minutes of the show. If you truly wanted to do it the J.R./Jon way, the beverage of choice would be a gallon of root beer spiced up with a cup of salt.

ANYWAY, we've discussed it and decided that if you'd like to play along, we're just going to abide by the "general quotes" section and the two "Worf" sections. That way we won't need to consult five pages of rules for every five seconds of show. So here are the tamer rules, which will be far easier to follow:

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

It's the end of Season Three! Huzzah! Come for the awesome discussion of the final episodes of the season! Stay for the awesome season summary. It'll hit you like the main deflector dish!

Here is that link we said we'd post about the Star Trek drinking game. Plan on playing it with us when we watch "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"! Don't actually drink alcohol or you'll probably pass out.

Also, this may be the most important link you'll ever click on -- here.

Podcast breakdown:

0:00 -- nuqneH9:03 -- "Transfigurations"24:44 -- "The Best of Both Worlds"42:25 -- Awards and rankings46:34 -- Season Three wrap-up and awards1.12:38 -- Season Three rankings1.36:47 -- Qapla' and outtakes

Monday, August 3, 2009

So like, there was a lot of background noise in this one for the first 40 minutes or so. Don't worry, just pretend that you're in the middle of a highly intellectual conversation at a really ritzy cocktail party -- except you can't see anybody, most of the guests have the voices of little kids and what you're talking about is an alien technology that allows you to teleport clothing off of women without their consent.

We cover five episodes of NextGen in this particular podcast. Most of them involve obsessiveness and kidnapping.

Here is that link we said we'd post about the Star Trek drinking game. Plan on playing it with us when we watch "Best of Both Worlds Part II"!

the point of this

J.R. used to make fun of Jon for watching Star Trek. Now J.R. has agreed to watch Star Trek from the very beginning so that he can objectively continue to make fun of Jon. Will he waver? Join his long, arduous journey.